Detroit Women in Digital August Meet Up

I went to Detroit Women in Digital and it was my pleasure to have a chance to talk to Sally Medina who is the Automotive Account Executive at Amazon. She shared her experience in interviewing with Amazon and shared some insider tips on resumes, recruitment which I wrote them down as important notes:

• always 1-page resume although you have more than 10-year working experiences
• ask people what they do every day about the jobs you're interested in instead of only checking their online job descriptions
• no picture on your resume, please
• immediate email or a hand-written thank you card is always welcomed
• references are important
• You can never be over-educated or over-dressed (my favorite💓) 
• Please give your questions back to the company you're interested in        

After her lecture, I had a chance to talk to her. I asked her a question which has been on my mind for a while "Is Amazon trying to purchase the whole world??" Sally couldn't stop laughing about this question, she said: "you know, as an employee at Amazon, we don't even know what happened until we read the news or heard the news from our families, there's no announcement from Amazon officially."

And then she shared her tips about how to balance her career and family. She told me that she had to work insanely to prove herself in Digital Marketing Area and I could totally understand her feelings since women are still struggling in a world that men rule.

I was also lucky enough to talk to Stephanie Glied - Director, Analytics at Huge. We had a really fun time talking about how Analytics run in the real auto industry and she said the comments were really funny. She couldn't stop laughing about the comments from Analytics.

When I arrived home, I received an email that Google decided not to proceed with my application at this time. Instead of feeling upset, I realize that there's a long way for me to go in the digital marketing area. And I will learn from Sally Medina to work insanely from now trying to make myself more qualified.

BTW, the weather is getting cooler and I feel really comfortable waiting for fall to come while stepping on the fallen leaves listening to the sound I step on them 💖.

18th Day-Top 25 Pages with Bounce rate over 50%

Seventh Day-WordPress Anti-spam for Form submission

Although summer internship requires 16 blogs in total, I feel like sharing a lot what happened to me every day and what I've been learned so far. So I decide to keep blogging until the last day.

Today, I had a chance to meet the head of the engineering department, Ken, since he only needs to show up in the office once a month. He asked me how I feel so far with this new environment. I said I have learned much more than what I've learned in the past 2 years and I indeed love the working environment with all the co-workers. Everyone is so dedicated to working.

Usually, the first thing I come to the office is to make black coffee, Ken asked Ben, since when there's coffee offered in the office. Ben said from the moment Shuting started to work here. I said, go ahead Ken, have some coffee to start a brand new day.

Ben asked me what I would like to do today. I replied the 1st task on your working schedule. And he said that's a great question and double check what to do next. But I feel that he noticed that I am very tired after moving to a new house by myself  😓 this Monday so he only asked me to do some research work.

I pretty much just searched articles for WordPress Anti-Spam for form submission.

There're three parts for this task:

(1) Methods of Implementations
(2) Links to the articles
(3) Benefits

Tomorrow is another day, everybody!!

Sixteenth Day-Low Bounce Rate Problem Finally Solved!!!!

Low Bounce Rate problem has been a topic since the moment I started my summer internship. I remembered that when I came up with this topic at the weekly meeting, Bud shared his opinion with all the interns.

Last week, Ben and I tried to solve this problem since he's been working on it for a month. I searched the potential reasons for Ben and we believe "tracking code twice in Google Tag Manager" is the one.

Ben told me today that he solved the problem and we greeted with a high five. And the bounce rate is much higher than before.

(note: for 7 days)

Ben said he wished the low bounce rate is the truth. I said but I preferred the real data. At the beginning, it's not that easy for us to accept the real statistics, for example, when I weigh myself every morning, sometimes I could barely accept the number I see from the electric weight scale, and the good thing is that I realize I need to stop eating that much and go back to the gym. Usually, people choose to ignore the statistics they receive, but as a data nerd, I prefer to use statistics to non- stop improving myself and keep myself more self-disciplined.